| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1941-1949 -- The Journey, January 29 to February 7, 1949 -- Early Life and Education, London, 1903-1929 -- Medical Physicist Part I, London, 1929-1944 -- The Unknown Years and UNESCO, Paris, 1944-1948 -- Replacing Radium, 1937-1949 -- The Arrival, Houston, February 1949 -- The Cobalt Unit, 1949-1954 -- Medical Physicist Part II, Houston, 1949-1951 -- Cobalt-60 and the Notebook -- Cobalt-60 in Perspective |
| Summary |
For the latter half of the 20th century, cobalt-60 units were the mainstay of radiation treatments for cancer. Cobalt Blues describes the development of the first cobalt-60 unit in the United States and the man behind it, Leonard Grimmett. Conceptually conceived before World War II, it only became possible because of the development of nuclear reactors during the war. Although Grimmett conceived of and published his ideas first, the Canadians built the first units because of the capability of their reactor to produce more suitable cobalt-60 sources. This book tells the story of how Grimmett and others came together at the time that the U S Atomic Energy Agency was pushing the use of radioactivity in medicine. Due to his sudden death, very little information about Grimmett was known until recently, when various documents have come to light, allowing the full story to be told |
| Analysis |
Physics |
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Science -- History |
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Oncology |
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Radiology, Medical |
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Medical and Radiation Physics |
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History of Science |
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Diagnostic Radiology |
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Cancer Research |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| In |
Springer eBooks |
| Subject |
Grimmett, Leonard
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Physicists -- United States -- Biography
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Radiotherapy -- United States -- History
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Chemistry -- United States -- History
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Cobalt -- United States -- History
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Cobalt -- History
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History.
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Oncology.
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History
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Medical Oncology
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history (discipline)
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SCIENCE -- Energy.
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SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- General.
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Physique.
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Astronomie.
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Chemistry
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Cobalt
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Physicists
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Radiotherapy
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012945098 |
| ISBN |
9781461449249 |
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1461449243 |
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1461449235 |
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9781461449232 |
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1283741725 |
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9781283741729 |
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